Patricia Colleen Murphy is the winner of the 2019 Press 53 Poetry Prize for Bully Love, and the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award for Hemming Flames. She founded Superstition Review and teaches at Arizona State University.

Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ, the founding director of Revisionary Arts, and a narrative medicine specialist committed to improving public health through poetry.

Dr. Stephanie R. deLusé writes and teaches, including The Human Event and other courses, at Barrett, the Honors College at ASU.

Ison is the author of the novels "At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf," "The List," "A Child out of Alcatraz," and "Rockaway"; "Ball," a short story collection, and the essays "Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies."

Dr. Glenn teaches argumentation and civil discourse, business and professional writing, creative non-fiction and literature for students in the Barrett Honors College, the W.P. Carey School of Business, and throughout ASU.

Lee Gutkind founded Creative Nonfiction, the first and the largest literary journal to publish narrative/creative nonfiction exclusively. At ASU, he founded the ThinkWritePublish program, supported by NSF and Templeton Fnd..

Starting his journey with $18 in pocket and backpack loaded with integrity, aspiration & mindfulness, Pandya glanced in a rear view mirror with the mindset only to measure how far had he traveled to continue onward & upward.

Ruckman has been teaching various writing courses at ASU since 2007. In 2016, Ruckman also started teaching with the Prison Education Program.